Albums.
Found in 276 Collections and/or Records:
Legal papers, maps and prospectuses, largely concerning a Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh canal, and the Slamannan Railway, Stirlingshire.
Letters, 1819-1884, to Robert and Thomas Stevenson, in an album of Thomas Stevenson.
The volume also contains remarks on the raising of the continuation of Dysart pier, by John Smeaton, 1758 (folio 7), and a note of John Howard, the philanthropist, 1780 (folio 18). The correspondents, who are chiefly scientific celebrities, include J M W Turner, 1819 (folio 9), and Sir Walter Scott, sending a proposed alteration in the preface of Robert Stevenson’s ‘Account of the Bell Rock Light-house’, 1824 (folio 3).
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount, together with some letters written by them.
The subjects of the letters include the Peninsular War, East India Company affairs, and matters relating to many European countries.
Letters and papers on various subjects., 1575-1824, undated.
Letters and parts of letters of celebrities of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, pasted in two albums.
The letters are unconnected except some addressed to the editor of 'Good Words' and others addressed to Professor George Buchanan, Glasgow.
Letters of a seceding churchman, possibly James Fisher.
Letters, photographs and papers concerning the Malcolm and Douglas families.
Includes a genealogical record, 1882, of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family.
Letters to Sir Philip and Lady Trotter of Mainhouse.
Letters from family friends in the Borders, and from army colleagues of Sir Philip, including several letters from South Africa.
"Memorandum Book concerning the Earl of Kinnoulls [sic] Estate in Perthshire".
Memorial album of Charlotte Chapel Sabbath School, Edinburgh.
Microfilm of album, ?1780-?1782, of sketches of figures and scenes in the Peninsula and France, by Mrs Mary Graham; and, journal, July-August 1792, of Thomas Graham, of his return journey through France after the death of Mrs Graham.
Microfilm of album of sketches of figures and scenes in the Peninsula and France, by Mrs Mary Graham., ?1780-?1782.
Microfilm of papers of and concerning James Augustus Grant.
Microfilm of sketches, maps, and various other papers of, or concerning, James Augustus Grant., 1850-[1872, or after].
Microfilm of Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts. Part 4. The correspondence and papers of J G Lockhart from the National Library of Scotland. Reels 1-18 (Adam Matthew).
Microfilm of Nineteenth century literary manuscripts. Part 4. The correspondence and papers of J G Lockhart. Reel 17., [?1758-?1854.]
Military material, chiefly relating to the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough.
Minutes of the Bannatyne Club, and an album containing impressions of copper plates and woodcuts., 1823-1861.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Miscellaneous autograph letters, official documents, signatures, etc., pasted into an album.
There are a number of letters to David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan (succeeded 1767), which relate largely to his antiquarian interests. Most of the other letters are also of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the writers include noblemen, churchmen, public servants, and prominent literary figures.
Miscellaneous manuscripts formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Miscellaneous papers of Florence Marian McNeill., 1842-1961, undated.
Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.
Music belonging to Mary Grant, Cullen House.
Includes pieces by Handel, San Martini, the Earl of Keely, and various songs.